I'm only 31 now but it seems I've almost done as many hours as Stephen Wolfram or Donald Knuth. I started coding at 14 and have been coding 8 hours per day on a

I'm only 31 now but it seems I've almost done as many hours as Stephen Wolfram or Donald Knuth. I started coding at 14 and have been coding 8 hours per day on average including weekends. I often code at night too. At least 44K hours total. I'm working on blockchain tech now and built my own scalable quantum-resistant multi-chain blockchain ecosystem with a DEX from scratch including the cryptographic primitives based on a variant of Lamport OTS with Merkle Signature Scheme. Did it all (including all UIs, modules, etc...) in less than 1 year part time, mostly on my own but with some help towards the end. Before that, I wrote a distributed messaging system which auto-scales on Kubernetes. I also wrote an off-chain payment system which auto-scales on Kubernetes including the database persistence layer which self-shards across docker volumes and can process an unlimited number of transactions. The highest salary I was ever offered was $110K per year. Thankfully, I make my own money now so I don't have to deal with crony capitalists. In spite of all this and constantly trying to reach out to VCs and investors, it took a miracle for me to make it to this point...